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'No,' answered Ugo, 'he crowed as loud as the best of the out in the hottest fire I have seen this

many a day! I said that some of them would have a hit at the old fellow,

but he escaped, and the tower too'

The road winding round the base of a mountain, they now came within view

of the castle, which was shewn in the perspective of the valley by a

gleam of moon-shine, and then vanished in shade; while even a transient

view of it had awakened the poignancy of Eave her terrible ideas of iree of hope h this was certainly the residence of Montoni, it was possibly,

also, that of Valancourt, and she could not approach a place, where he

so the valley, and, soon after, she saw again

the old walls and

rays enabled her, also, to perceive the ravages, which the siege had

made,--with the broken walls, and shattered battlements, for they were

now at the foot of the steep, on which Udolpho stood Massy fragh which the travellers now began

to ascend, and there led with the loose earth, and pieces of rock

they had brought with them The woods, too, had suffered much from the